CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-1215

Published: Mar 09, 2008 | Modified: Aug 08, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Stack-based buffer overflow in the command_Expand_Interpret function in command.c in ppp (aka user-ppp), as distributed in FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0, OpenBSD 4.1 and 4.2, and the net/userppp package for NetBSD, allows local users to gain privileges via long commands containing ~ characters.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openbsd Openbsd 4.1 4.1
Freebsd Freebsd 6.3 6.3
Netbsd Netbsd * *
Freebsd Freebsd 7.0 7.0
Openbsd Openbsd 4.2 4.2

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